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Clay Travis

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4536 total appearances

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Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

And we've already enacted plans.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

We're not just doing talk about this.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

We had a big event last week where we shared with industry and all our international partners how we're going to do it.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

We dropped RFIs, RFPs, had breakout sessions the next day because now we're in execution mode.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

Yeah, absolutely.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

So I'll tell you what SpaceX did, which is so important, is they figured out how to reuse the rocket again.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

And not months later, but to do it in weeks.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

Why does this matter?

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

I mean, think about it.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

If you were traveling with your family to Disney World, but you had to throw away the 737, how much would it cost to get to Disney World, right?

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

That's not how we want to do it anymore.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

SpaceX pioneered rapid reusability of the first stage of the booster.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

And what that did is it brought the cost

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

to put mass in orbit down materially.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

Now, what does that serve?

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

That serves a lot of different applications.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

You can now have high-speed Internet in low-Earth orbit, but it has national security applications as well.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

I mean, the satellites that we use in conflict for observation, for communication, for command and control, those are all put up now far more affordably than ever before.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

thanks to reusability.

Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus: Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 31 2026

But it's also great for science and discovery, right?